"The Papua provincial administration is ready to support the recruitment financially," the provincial government's secretary, Dance Yulian Flassy, said here Tuesday.
The provincial government, however, does not participate in the recruitment process, as it is the exclusive responsibility of the Papua police headquarters, he added.
However, the quota for recruiting 2,000 young men and women from native Papuan communities in five regions has been jointly approved by the provincial government and Papua police.
"The Papua provincial government is ready to finance the recruitment of the 2,000 police cadets through the Papua special autonomy funds," he reiterated.
Meanwhile, Sen. Coms. Alfred Papare from the Papua police headquarters noted that the quota of 2,000 police cadets for the "Bintara Noken" Program would remain unchanged.
Papare said there would be no additional number of recruits, adding that the total number of applicants was recorded at more than 7,000 people.
However, owing to the quota, the number of recruits is restricted to 2,000, he said.
The special autonomy funds come from the Papua and West Papua provincial governments, which were received from the central government following the enactment of Papua Special Autonomy Law No.21/2001.
Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) is currently working to finish the renewal of the Papua Special Autonomy Law No.21/2001 before it expires in November this year.
The law, which has been in force for almost 20 years, has paved the way for a significant amount of funding to flow into Papua and West Papua, with the central government earmarking Rp94.24 trillion (CNN Indonesia, 2020) for the region from 2002 to 2020.
The government has hinted that it intends to extend the allocation of the special autonomy funds by another 20 years, to expedite efforts to close the development gap and help all communities in the region to prosper.
Even as deliberations continue on the bill for amending the Papua Special Autonomy Law No.21/2001, which has become a top priority under the National Legislation Program (Prolegnas), Papua remains trapped in the throes of violence.
Over the last few years, Papuan separatist terrorists have used hit-and-run tactics against Indonesian security personnel and targeted civilians in districts, including Intan Jaya, Nduga, and Puncak, to stoke fear among the people.
The recent targets of such acts have included construction workers, motorcycle taxi (ojek) drivers, teachers, students, street food vendors, villagers, and also civilian aircraft.
Last week, three residents of Niporolome village in Ilaga, Puncak district, Papua province, died and three others were injured in a gunfight between security personnel and armed Papuan rebels at the Aminggaru Airport in Ilaga.
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(INE)
2) Indonesian police foil Islamist terrorist plot to bomb churches in Papua
Police in Indonesia have uncovered an Islamist terrorist plot to attack several churches and assassinate a leading church minister in the country’s Christian-majority province of Papua.
Members of the Densus 88 counter-terrorism squad and local police made at least ten arrests across southern Papua on 28 May. The suspects are believed to be connected to Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), which has links to the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) terrorist group.
Barnabas Fund provided replacement Bibles to Christians in Papua province after heavy flooding in 2019. JAD terrorists have been planning to bomb churches in the region
“They intended to commit suicide bombings at several churches in Merauke, Jagebob, Kurik, Semangga and Tanah Miring,” said a police spokesman.
One suspect revealed during police questioning that suicide bombers had attempted twice to kill one of Papua’s most senior church leaders but he survived because on both the occasions that he was targeted he was out of town.
On Palm Sunday this year two JAD suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a church in Makassar city on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Nineteen people were injured in the attack, but the toll could have been worse had a security guard not prevented the bombers’ motorcycle from entering the church gates.
JAD, which operates throughout Indonesia, is suspected of carrying out suicide attacks on three churches in the city of Surabaya, on the Indonesian island of Java, in 2018, killing 13 people and wounding 40 others.
Another Islamist terrorist group with links to IS, the East Indonesia Mujahideen, killed four Christian farmers working in a coffee plantation on 11 May 2021 in Central Sulawesi. Reported to have ten members, the East Indonesia Mujahideen’s operations are confined largely to Central Sulawesi province.
Indonesia is home to the world’s largest Muslim population and has seen a rise in hard-line Islamic ideology in recent years. A generation ago, Muslims and Christians lived peaceably as equals in accordance with Pancasila.
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